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| District(s) | Bangalore Urban |
| Parliamentary constituency | Bangalore South |
| Assembly constituency | Spread over Basavanagudi, Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore South and Vijayanagar |
| Zone | Bangalore South |
| Ward | 155, 156, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 180 |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
Banashankari (Kannada: ಬನಶಂಕರಿ), abbreviated as BSK is a neighbourhood in South Bangalore. It gets its name from the Banashankari Amma Temple on Kanakapura Road, one of Bangalore's oldest and well known temples, which was constructed by Subramanya Shetty in 1915.
Banashankari is the largest locality in Bangalore, extending all the way from Mysore Road to Kanakapura Road. It is bounded by Girinagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar in the west, Basavangudi in the north, Jayanagar and J.P. Nagar in the east, and Padmanabhanagar, Kumaraswamy Layout and Uttarahalli in the south.
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Banashankari is the only locality which has all the possible classifications - stage, phase and block. It is divided into 6 stages, with the 6th stage being the largest.
This area is one of the oldest areas in Bangalore. It subsumes areas such as Hanumanthanagar, Srinagar, Nagendra Block, Muneshwara Block, Kalidasa Layout, Raghavendra Block, Avalahalli, Brindavan Nagar and Ashok Nagar.
This part of Banashankari is well known for the Ramanjaneya Temple[1] and 'Kumara Swamy Devasthana. The PES College is also located here.
This area is close to Jayanagar. It is home to eminent persons such as Anil Kumble and Ramesh Arvind. It has two well known hills, Banagiri, housing the Varasiddhi Vinayaka Temple and Devagiri, housing the Venkateshwara Temple. It and its sublocalities mentioned later in the section are a cosmopolitan area (where people from different parts of India having different cultures reside in harmony), unlike the 1st and 3rd stages, which have a predominantly Kannada speaking population.
Along with Kathriguppe, it is the main commercial area of Banashankari.
Mindtree has its office in this area.
It also subsumes areas like Kadirenahalli, Yarab Nagar, Karesandra and Kaveri Nagar.
Karesandra, Yarab Nagar and Kaveri Nagar are Muslim majority areas.
Kadirenahalli is notorious for its long delayed underpass which has hampered traffic in South Bangalore. The work started in 2008 and is yet to be completed.
A relatively new area, formed in the mid 1980s. It is divided into 3 phases and 9 blocks. It also subsumes areas like Srividya Nagar, Hosakerehalli, Veerabhadra Nagar, Kathriguppe, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, Ittamadu, Srinivasa Nagar, Mysore Bank Colony and Channammanakere Achukattu.
An old village which was formerly under Rajarajeshwarinagar CMC. It is named after a famous lake in the vicinity. The NICE road passes through this area. Institutions like Little Flower Public School and P.E.S. Institute of Technology are located here.
The commercial area of BSK 3rd Stage. Kathriguppe is famous for being the locality where Sandalwood Star of Cinema of Karnataka Upendra resides, Famous for Big Bazaar, which was the first in South Bangalore. The development of the Outer Ring Road acted as a catalyst to the development of this village. Now this area has many factory shops selling clothes at cheaper prices compared to other places in the city.
| Girinagar | Srinagar / Hanumanthanagar | Basavanagudi / N.R. Colony | ||
| Rajarajeshwari Nagar | Thyagarajanagar / Jayanagar | |||
| Banashankari | ||||
| Uttarahalli | Padmanabhanagar / Kumaraswamy Layout | J.P. Nagar |